Search
Darrell and Dad's's Reports
Change View:
Posted: 4/1/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We closed the season with a bang. Andy and the Stennes' fished from Pateros to Bridgeport pounding their favorite holes and seems from Pateros all the way up to Bridgeport. Sixteen Steelhead to the ...
Posted: 4/1/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/31/2010
Hot Spots: 0
It was a good morning and a very tough afternoon on Chelan. The Bar produced quality fish. The dips in the flat below the Bar produced the picture fish for the day. The venerable U20 Luminous Chart...
Posted: 3/30/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
This is a great windup to a wonderful Steelhead Season. The Stennes' once again put their guys on some nice steelhead on the next to the last day of the season. One last shot tomorrow to work those ...
Posted: 3/30/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/30/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The Grandview H.S. braintrust came out to fish with Andy this morning on our North River. Andy pounded away with T-4 Flatfish in both Luminous Chartreuse and Purple Glow. He got a couple of big fish...
Posted: 3/30/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/30/2010
Hot Spots: 2
Pepe' Hernandez and Roger Sorenson used their last day off from running Blueberry Hills before Fall to come out and fish with me. I'm honored. We fished the Bar without success then pounded those ho...
Posted: 3/30/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Jody Bessert and Howard Pierce were nice enough to come fish with us. Our guide Andy worked the South Shore side of the Bar, the flat below the Bar and the lower basin to get them 11 lakers in the bo...
Posted: 3/26/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, alls well the ends well. We went an hour and 48 minutes without a bite to start the morning. Spencer and his buddies just hung in there and stayed positive. It was the polar opposite of yeste...
Posted: 3/25/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/25/2010
Hot Spots: 3
What a beautiful morning to fish. Mild temps and no wind. We started on the "Bar" before the sun was up. After two passes in about 90 minutes of wrork we had 4 fish including a 17.5 pound kicker. ...
Posted: 3/24/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/24/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Bobby Loomis of Mack's Lures was nice enough to bring the guys from Wholesale Sports out for a beautiful afternoon fishing on Lake Chelan with me. We used some oversize Mack's Lures wedding rings bai...
Posted: 3/22/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/22/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to go to Roses to try some different presentations to fine tune our trolling pattern. I did not get bit on the flies with an 8th or a 4th of an ounce. I did start to get bites when I got 3/4...
Posted: 3/22/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/20/2010
Hot Spots: 0
It continues to be work to get those Mackinaw to bite. We are fishing the Bar early then hitting the holes in the indeterminate flat between the Bar and Rocky Point. The trench produced some fish la...
Posted: 3/21/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Had some friends over for the first grill party of the season. We decided to take the kids fishing for a few minutes. Ran down and dumped the North River into Roses and were trolling in about 10 min...
Posted: 3/21/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/19/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Kayla Hutton was nice enough to bring her Dad, Dan and come fishing with me on her Spring Break. We had a promising start on the Bar, hitting three fish in 2 passes in depths of 115 to 135 feet deep....
Posted: 3/14/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
I was given instructions that I had 90 minutes to take our 8 year old granddaughter, McKinley to Roses to catch some fish. Not that she's bossy or anything. Had to fit it in between church, lunch an...
Posted: 3/14/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/14/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Brady and Lanny Bumgarner came out for a mornings fishing with us. It wasn't as good a bite as yesterday, but it was OK. The upper shoulder of the Bar produced early then the trench produced a few f...
Posted: 3/13/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/13/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Victor Doperalski of the Lake Washington Puget Sound Anglers brought his son Davide with us for an 8 hour gig on Lake Chelan. Andy Byrd guided them. It was a slow start early, but picked up after th...
Posted: 3/12/2010
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/12/2010
Hot Spots: 2
I had the Garcia family from Moses Lake out fishing on Chelan today. It started off kind of slow on the Bar. We got 3 fish and lost 2. I tried the flat between the Bar and Minneapolis for a while i...
Posted: 3/11/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/11/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Well, our Steelhead guys made me look like I was fishing for bait. They took out three guys. Pounding away in runs and seams from Pateros up to Bridgeport, they got those late season steelies to bit...
Posted: 3/3/2010
Species: Tiger Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/3/2010
Hot Spots: 2
Well, what do you do if you just want to go fish for a couple of hours in the rain in the Chelan Valley? Go to little Roses Lake. The ice has been off for about a week now. The fishing is red hot. ...
Posted: 3/2/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/2/2010
Hot Spots: 0
We worked for our Steelhead today. Running and gunning was the order of the day. We hit holes and runs virtually all along the stretch from just above Wells Dam to Chief Joseph. Red glitter jigs un...
Posted: 3/1/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/27/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Steelhead fishing on the Upper Columbia continues to perk along. In this late season, cold water time of the year you have got to be quick on the hook set. Basic rigging consists of medium sized spi...
Posted: 2/23/2010
Species: Steelhead
Rating: 5
Fished: 2/23/2010
Hot Spots: 0
The Stennes' guided Glen Musser of Wenatchee and John Senseney of East Wenatchee for an Upper Columbia Steelheading adventure. They caught 9 hatchery fish, 2 natives and a triploid rainbow. Four wer...
Posted: 6/5/2009
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/4/2009
Hot Spots: 1
Well, if you get a day off from fishing you should go fishing. I've always wanted to fool around on Omak Lake for trophy potential Cutts. Thursday was the day. We fished the very Southern end of th...
Posted: 6/5/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/3/2009
Hot Spots: 0
The fishing sure has been consistent. Working the flat below the Bar continues to produce great numbers of Lakers with the occasional nice landlocked Chinook to really make things interesting. F-7 p...
Posted: 6/1/2009
Species: Mackinaw
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
The only thing hotter than the weather is the fishing. We are fishing between the Bar and Rocky Point in the morning. Depths of 170 to 220 are most productive. Most times pulling F-7 purple glow fl...
